Eclipsed Ecologies This year’s edition of SAGE revels in darkness — depths where life exists without light or creates light of its own. Dark ecologies exist all around us. Some we can’t see without disrupting their darkness, such as fine networks of tree roots and the mycorrhizal fungi. Some create their own glow, like the glittering chemistry of bioluminescence in […]
Annual print edition submission deadline is January 5. Prize amounts from $250 to $500.
KINSHIP IN THE HEAT of a midsummer day, I wade into the glacial waters of my favorite alpine lake. I’ve been swimming here for as long as I can remember. Floating on my back, I look up at the open sky, which is framed by the silhouettes of spruce and pine. The world seems as small as it does infinite. […]
Ecological Memory The loss of memory can be devastating. Last year, SAGE published our first print magazine since 2020. It was a massive undertaking, clouded by uncertainty. The one-year hiatus had halted the transfer of institutional memory. Our team had to rebuild SAGE nearly from scratch. This year, we’ve carried that momentum with us, patchworking together what we know about […]
CULTIVATION Cultivation: the act of caring for living things of all kinds.Cultivation: tilling, tending to, and turning pieces of the world over and over in our minds’ eyes. Agriculture and, in its most literal sense, cultivation is so many things at once: a carbon source and sink, an engine of profit and debt, a tool of oppression and liberation, a […]